I know I am really late asking this - and I am just asking our of curiosity - but did anyone set up an ofrenda for Dia de los Muertos, to honor and remember those family members who had passed on.
I wanted to do so , but the death of my dear daughter last month ... well, I just couldn't quite do it. Perhaps I will get back to setting up an ofrenda next year. My son-in-law (non-hispanic) and two young grand-daughters set up a small ofrenda - the little one, 3 -1/2 yrs, wanted to put "everything" on the ofrenda, because "mommy would love it". (It was his first experience - I appreciate that he made the effort to share his wife's heritage with their children.)
However - if you did set up an ofrenda to remember loved ones and antepasados, could you share what you did - or perhaps share a photo.
And perhaps next year I will be able to get back to research.
-natalie
(who researches primarily Castro, Duenas/Duenes, Garcia, who left Hacienda del Astillero [Valparaiso district] in 1916 to go to the US for the duration of the revolution, but never went back.)
Natalie,
Please accept our sincere condolesces. My sister set up an ofrenda for
our father who died in January. It was difficult not to cry as I stood
looking at those objects and photos of my beloved father. Also, as a
college professor at Cal Poly Pomona, my sister also works with her
students and I can attest to the fact that many of the ofrendas are
elaborate and very meaningful. The students set them up annually.
Again, I am so sorry about your loss.
Eloise Gomez Reyes
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Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Dia de los Muertos
I know I am really late asking this - and I am just asking our of
curiosity - but did anyone set up an ofrenda for Dia de los Muertos, to
honor and remember those family members who had passed on.
I wanted to do so , but the death of my dear daughter last month ...
well, I just couldn't quite do it. Perhaps I will get back to setting
up
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Natalie
Mi mas sentido pésame por la irreparable perdida de tu hija, que Dios la
tenga en su reino. Aunque yo si rezo por mis familiares y amigos ya
fallecidos, no pongo ofrenda, pues no todas las familias en México observan
esa costumbre, sin embargo de niña, en la primer mitad del siglo XX, viví
ese bonito y emotivo día cada año en casa de mis abuelos paternos que ponían
una ofrenda impresionante y pensé que compartir mis recuerdos será algo
interesante para los amigos de "Nuestros Ranchos".
Llegabamos desde el día primero de noviembre en que se recordaba a los niños
difuntos, por lo que también había juguetes junto a la mesa de la ofrenda,
Tal mesa se encontraba en el mejor lugar de la sala-comedor frente a un
crucifijo, estaba cubierta de manteles blancos, bordados y con encajes muy
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Hi Natalie,
Please accept my sincere condolenses. I do have ofrendas each year. Ill send a separate email.
You and your family are in my prayers.
Sandra
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I know I am really late asking this - and I am just asking our of curiosity - but did anyone set up an ofrenda for Dia de los Muertos, to honor and remember those family members who had passed on.
I wanted to do so , but the death of my dear daughter last month ... well, I just couldn't quite do it. Perhaps I will get back to setting up an ofrenda next year. My son-in-law (non-hispanic) and two young grand-daughters set up a small ofrenda - the little one, 3 -1/2 yrs, wanted to put "everything" on the ofrenda, because "mommy would love it". (It was his first experience - I appreciate
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Hi Natalie,
Please accept my sincere condolenses. I do have ofrendas each year. Ill send a separate email.
You and your family are in my prayers.
Sandra
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Subject: [Nuestros Ranchos] Dia de los Muertos
I know I am really late asking this - and I am just asking our of curiosity - but did anyone set up an ofrenda for Dia de los Muertos, to honor and remember those family members who had passed on.
I wanted to do so , but the death of my dear daughter last month ... well, I just couldn't quite do it. Perhaps I will get back to setting up an ofrenda next year. My son-in-law (non-hispanic) and two young grand-daughters set up a small ofrenda - the little one, 3 -1/2 yrs, wanted to put "everything" on the ofrenda, because "mommy would love it". (It was his first experience - I appreciate
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Natalie --- my condolences.
I didn't know what you meant by an "ofrenda" so I went to google and typed in "ofrenda for dia de los muertos", and I got several sites that had videos and photos of them.
In one site called questconnect.com I found the article below about ofrendas in Oaxaca. I suppose each region in Mexico has similar ones. It looks like they are highly personal things, so what your little grandchildren did from the heart was quite appropriate. In the article below, they built an altar and put paper fall decorations on it as well as food and fruits, flowers, photos of the departed and saints. I think if I built one I would put fall leaves, indian corn, a sage plant, fall flowers, cookies, nuts, candies, grapes, candles and Halloween figurines as well as figurines or photos of saints and of our dear departed. I have a built-in buffet that would be perfect for it.
When I first came to California around age 6 from New Mexico, where they only clean up the gravesites
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